On\u00a0July 11, 2017, Harvey Weinstein\u2019s attorney David Boies, of the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, LLP, signed a contract with Black Cube, an Israeli private-intelligence agency operated by former members of Israel\u2019s Mossad intelligence service. The contract describes Black Cube\u2019s tactics and goals in its work for the client, identified in other documents as Weinstein. The firm\u2019s first objective, as stated in the contract, was to uncover information that would help stop the publication of a new, negative newspaper story, which sources said was a New York\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0story focussed on sexual-misconduct allegations against Weinstein. Its second objective was to obtain a manuscript of a book that sources identified as the memoir of the actress Rose McGowan, who had accused Weinstein of rape.<\/p>\n